How Architecture Can Think Socially Published by Verlag für moderne Kunst. By Marius Babias. Edited by Philipp Oswalt, Rein Wolfs. Contributions by Frank Motz. Text by Louisa Hutton, Engelbert Lütke Daldrup, Wolfgang Hocquel, Wolfgang Kil, Johannes Kühn, Wilfried Kühn, Matthias Sauerbruch, Bernard Schulz, Jean Philipp Vassal. How does one reintegrate old textile mills into the fabric of a community? At a former Leipzig cotton-spinning mill (now the site of the Federkiel Foundation), a distinguished group of architects, critics, preservationists, city planners and artists (among them Anne Dressen and Philipp Oswalt) convened to discuss the conversion of industrial space into cultural gathering place. Chapters here cover P.S.1 in New York and MASS MoCA.
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